- In Isengard Merry and Pippin find a storage room of Saruman's food. It's even got some of the South Farthing's best Longbottom leaf tobacco.
- In Rohan things are also happy, with the battle over and the orcs fled into the angry forest.
- But Gandalf, ever the stormcrow, reminds us that while the battle for Helm's Deep is over, the Battle for Middle-earth has just begun.